Israeli Diplomacy and the Quest for Peace

ISBN-13: 9780714652337 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 260 str.

Mordechai Gazit

Opis

With the political changes between 1989 and 1992, ethnic unmixing and ethnic migration reached a new climax. State formation in the aftermath of the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the collapse of Yugoslavia led to a new dynamic of interethnic relations between majority and minority populations. The break-up of these two multi-ethnic states created new minorities and made certain members of the previous titular nation (eg Russians, Serbs) into ethnic minorities. New states such as Croatia, Estonia and Macedonia were faced with the fact that large segments of their populations consisted of minorities. "Return migration" to Russia occurred when approximately 25 million (ethnic) Russians became minorities in the successor states of the former Soviet Union. In 20th-century Europe overall 40 to 60 million people were transferred, resettled or expelled as a consequence of "ethnic cleansing." This work examines the reasons for and the practice of ethnic migration and the challenges it produces.

Spis treści

Part 1 Negotiations - Direct and Indirect: mediation and mediators; American and British Diplomacy and the Bernadotte Mission; the Israeli-Jordan peace negotations (1949-51) - King Abdallah's lonely effort. Part 2 Failed efforts and Israeli self-reproach: the Goldmann affair; an invitation to Cairo that never was; Egypt and Israel - was there a peace opportunity missed in 1971?; the stillborn London agreement between King Hussein and Shimon Peres. Part 3 Ben-Gurion and Gaza: Ben-Gurion's 1949 proposal to incorporate the Gaza Strip into Israel; the 1956 Sinai Campaign - Ben-Gurion, Gaza and French Mediation. Part 4 Israel and the United States: America and Israel - a special relationship not always special; Israeli military procurement from the United States; the genesis of the US-Israel military-strategic relationship and the Dimona issue. Part 5 Diplomacy and the Foreign Ministry: the role of the Foreign Ministry. Conclusion.

O autorze

Gazit, Mordechai